The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A TEXAS JURY gave a verdict of $40 rs in favor
of man whose dog had been run over and
killed by railway train.
THE original Bartlett pear trees named after
Enoch Bartlett, still stand on bis grounds, near
Boston, and are over 50 years old. Twenty
years ago a new top was grated upon these oiu
trees and they still bear fine fruit
GLAssBLowERs' cheeks become thin and lose
their elasticity by the continued blowing. They
hang down like inverted pockets, and grow
useless 1t is a matter of record, ii is said, that
both here and in Europe glass workers have
blown holes through their cheeks.
THE Pitcairn Islanders the descendants of
British mutineers still live happily and are
prosperous. shpwrecked man from the
United States has married one of the natives.
The islanders still keep the old bounty names
Young, McEvoy and Christian-and want little
except nails and fshhooks.
NJ LOUISE THOMAS and Elsie p Buckingham
are two women of business. The first is one OF
the most successful bee raisers in the country,
and it is said that her bees produce 10000
pounds of honey yearly. The other is the sue
cessful manager of a fruit farm of several hun
dred acres in California and advises all women
who can TO takep this line of business.
BLANKET MILL, the first on the African con-
tinent, has just been opened at Cape Town,
worked by Cafir girls, who receive 24c. day.
The report Of the Kaiping collery IN North
as the daily pay for engine men, l5c. for miners
and I3c. for door and switch boys. The cotton
and jute mills of Bombay pay their operatives
from 1Oc. to &c. a day.
LIEUT. w H. ScHUETzE writes: "As we APP
preached verchoyansk (Northern Siberia the
cold was almost unbearable, compelling stop
at nearly every inhabited native hut, not oply
on account of ourselves, but more owing to the
reindeer which suffered visby during the low
temperature. Breathing was at times difficult.
and on Jan. 10 and II, 1885, the temperature
sunk to &c Celsius corresponding to $500
Fahrenheit below zero. Thisis the coolest tenn
perature ever observed"
THE shore along Bantam lake, near Water
bury, Conn, has hong been famous for the In
dian spearheads and other instruments found.
These have been so numerous that antiquarians
are led to believe battles were fought there, and
have been puzzled that no graves have been re
vealed Last week several workmen while dig
ging came across several bones of men mingled
with some rare Indian weapons. They had
been buried in a sitting position. One grave re-
vealed an unusually large collection, and was
probably that of a cheftain. The weapons
showed no signs Of use.
REPORTS from London show that the Poor
Guardians have $1,000 paupers on the parish
rolls compared with 1000 for the correspond
| ing week of last year The reported statement
of the Secretary of the Organized Charity AS
socation to the effect that there are 100000
persons in the metropolis whose condition is
one of acute suffering and Distress" must
surely be an exaggeration. That would be
| fifth of the population There are much more
trustworthy statistics accessible. The Poor
Guardians returns, however, are sufficient to
prove that the distress is unusual. An increase
of 10000 in the pauper list represents distress
among much larger number of people, many
of whom wonld refuse under any circumstan-
ceS, to go to the workhouSe